Posts by Stefan Lanfer

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Stefan Lanfer provides strategic and tactical communications leadership for Barr in support of its mission and goals. A member of the Barr Foundation team since 2008, Stefan served in a variety of roles focused on strategy, knowledge management, and communications, until his appointment, in 2014, as the Foundation’s first communications director. Stefan’s writings on communications, philanthropy, and leadership have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Communications Network’s Change Agent, and The Foundation Review. He is a board member (and former chair) of The Communications Network. Stefan also served as a US Fulbright Scholar in Lusaka, Zambia.

New Tactics. Same Commitment to Community and Mission-Driven Communications.

Mary Chalifour Brick Portrait 2023

Mary Chalifour

Associate Director of Communications

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Cecilia Hylton

Former Communications Manager

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

Why we’re pushing pause on Twitter and focusing elsewhere.

February 21, 2023 | Category: Barr News

Creating Space for Change by Asking, “Why?”

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

A new video series engages millions in questioning longstanding education practices that are ripe for a rethink.

August 22, 2018 | Category: Education

“If I made anyone here uncomfortable, you’re welcome.”

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

Three lessons in great communications from a philanthropy leadership conference.

April 14, 2017 | Category: Sector Effectiveness

Boston’s Arts Moment

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

A visit from NEA Chairman Jane Chu confirms the transformative potential—already being unleashed—of arts and culture in Boston.

May 18, 2015 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Creating a Communications Culture

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

Highlights from an ongoing Stanford Social Innovation Review blog series on strategic communications, including a new contribution from Barr.

March 09, 2015 | Category: Barr News

Introducing the New BarrFoundation.org

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

A tour of Barr’s new website from our director of communications.

February 24, 2015 | Category: Barr News

Empty seats? Don't (just) look to your marketing department.

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

At a recent gathering of Boston arts leaders, researcher Alan Brown challenged participants to consider a new way to understand and make progress on a persistent challenge: how to build demand and diversify audiences for the arts.

August 04, 2014 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Three Keys to Breakthrough on Complex Social Contract Issues

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

When complicated politics and old wounds keep deep-sixing change efforts, what does it take to get to a new outcome? A recent breakthrough in Boston suggests a template.

October 24, 2013 | Category: Education

A New Paradigm for Leadership Development

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

What if, instead of barreling ahead, relentlessly focused on keeping their organizations afloat (until they burn out trying), effective nonprofit leaders started delegating more and more responsibility to staff—at once paving the way for a next generation of leaders and freeing themselves to think about their own leadership in more expansive ways?

May 24, 2013 | Category: Barr Fellowship

What if our great leaders became a great network?

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Stefan Lanfer

Director of Communications

A new animation on the big ideas behind what The Boston Globe once called “a web of collaboration rippling through the nonprofit community with increasing effect.”

April 01, 2013 | Category: Barr Fellowship